Ed Grubermann:As a former Android user, you can have my iPhone 4s when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

I know quite a few people who have made the opposite jump instead of going to the iPhone 5, they all love their Android phones. Having gone from an older Android 1.5 device to 4.1 it is night and day. Unless you have used an Android 4.0 or above phone (and not a cheap-ass device) it just isn't a good comparison.

wholedamnshow:Carth: I think the most important phone of the year was the Nexus 4. It wasn't the best phone, it is underpowered compared to the SIII and the camera isn't that great, but at $350 and a huge sellout it convinced Tmobile there is a market for a unsubsidized carrier that offers cheaper plans. If Google can bring the price of phones down from $600 to $300 unsubsidized it will be a huge win for consumers and will result in lower monthly fees.

Nexus 4 is quad-core and 2gb of ram compared to the American SIII's dual core with 2gb of ram. Pixel density on the Nexus 4 is higher(318-306). You're right in that the GS3 is better in other areas, but Nexus 4 isn't "underpowered compared to the Slll."

Must be a problem with 4.2. It feels slower than a S3 for some reason.

Carth:I think the most important phone of the year was the Nexus 4. It wasn't the best phone, it is underpowered compared to the SIII and the camera isn't that great, but at $350 and a huge sellout it convinced Tmobile there is a market for a unsubsidized carrier that offers cheaper plans. If Google can bring the price of phones down from $600 to $300 unsubsidized it will be a huge win for consumers and will result in lower monthly fees.

Nexus 4 is quad-core and 2gb of ram compared to the American SIII's dual core with 2gb of ram. Pixel density on the Nexus 4 is higher(318-306). You're right in that the GS3 is better in other areas, but Nexus 4 isn't "underpowered compared to the Slll."

drjekel_mrhyde:Carth: I think the most important phone of the year was the Nexus 4. It wasn't the best phone, it is underpowered compared to the SIII and the camera isn't that great, but at $350 and a huge sellout it convinced Tmobile there is a market for a unsubsidized carrier that offers cheaper plans. If Google can bring the price of phones down from $600 to $300 unsubsidized it will be a huge win for consumers and will result in lower monthly fees.

The Nexus 4 was the everything Android user complained about the iPhone 4No LTENo expandable memoryGlass backShould be on all carriersI throw this in for fun. They were the first to say Nokia's Lumia's 920 wireless charging was a gimmick, then bam the Nexus 4 has the shiat also

It LTE up here in Canada which is nice. My point was the Nexus for succeeded where the original iPhone failed. it was able to be sold unlocked, for any GSM carrier without contract directly to consumers. Google hit the price sweet spot that apple missed so horribly with the original iPhone. I switched to the Nexus 4 from an iPhone 4S so i'm still getting used to it but so far I don't notice where the extra $300 when in the iphone.

Dragonflew:Ed Grubermann:As a former Android user, you can have my iPhone 4s when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

This is honestly the first time I have ever seen "iPhone" and "Android" reversed here.

Then you haven't paid much attention.

There's more than one who has gone from Android to iOS, just as more than one has gone the other way. I'm another user who had an unsatisfactory experience with Android who prefers iOS. It isn't perfect and some things from Android I do miss, but in general I'm pleased with the iPhone and I have no intention of going back to the Android platform.

There's no need for holy wars here. It boils down to one's own preferences; for some, Android is superior, for others, iOS, for yet others, Windows Phone. For nobody but corporate users trapped in 2004, there's Blackberry.

I think the most important phone of the year was the Nexus 4. It wasn't the best phone, it is underpowered compared to the SIII and the camera isn't that great, but at $350 and a huge sellout it convinced Tmobile there is a market for a unsubsidized carrier that offers cheaper plans. If Google can bring the price of phones down from $600 to $300 unsubsidized it will be a huge win for consumers and will result in lower monthly fees.

secularsage:I think it's even more remarkable that the #2 phone is a Windows Phone (over the iPhone 5 at #3).

The Galaxy S III is really nice. I've got a Droid RAZR Maxx and it's quite nice (and they're not kidding about the battery life; it blows away other Android phones). My only real beef with Android phones, aside from the fragmentation and bloatware everyone complains about, is the nomenclature -- why can't these phone manufacturers pick a simple name for their phones instead of tacking on ridiculous adjectives and numbers?

The "Galaxy S III" is a very confusing name for a phone, and non-technical people will think the S II and the S III aren't that different. The Droid RAZR, RAZR M and RAZR MAXX all sound very similar and then there are HD variants of the RAZR and RAZR MAXX that add to the confusion.

Android gets even more confusing for casual users since all versions of ICS and Jellybean aren't created equal due to custom software from manufacturers. It just adds to the nomenclature nightmare.

Part of marketing a product well is finding a simple, one-word poem of a name and going with that. iPhone is a great name in that regard, and the number simply tells you which generation it is. The Android phone makers could learn a lot from that.

Except when you get to Apple's marketing on the iPad.

iPadiPad 2The New iPadiPad with Retina DisplayiPad Mini

They were adamant that the third generation was not "iPad 3" and that the new version is not "iPad 4". Their marketing is just plain confusing for average buyers.